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The theme music by Ron Goodwin was played on Classic FM recently, sounds similar to London pride, which was the intention.

I always think Ron Goodwin's main title for Frenzy has a Dickensian Christmas feel to it for some reason. Henry Mancini originally wrote the score to Frenzy, but it was rejected by Hitchcock and/or Universal and Ron was engaged instead, a bit like the circumstances of Battle of Britain a couple of years earlier. After his falling out with Bernard Herrmann over the music for Torn Curtain, Hitchcock used different composers for each of his remaining films.

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I always think Ron Goodwin's main title for Frenzy has a Dickensian Christmas feel to it for some reason. Henry Mancini originally wrote the score to Frenzy, but it was rejected by Hitchcock and/or Universal and Ron was engaged instead, a bit like the circumstances of Battle of Britain a couple of years earlier. After his falling out with Bernard Herrmann over the music for Torn Curtain, Hitchcock used different composers for each of his remaining films.

Yes, a Dickensian, Christmassy tone, that sums the theme up, as good as any, what will the bells, etc;

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I have created a new "Off-Topic Discussion" Forum item called "Tower Bridge in films (non-British)".

This occurred after I realised that in my enthusiasm for the hunt I had neglected to check if the entries I was putting up here were at least partial British productions. As a result several have now been transferred to the new topic. These did not include "Laura Croft Tomb Raider" (2001), "Thunderbirds" (2004) and "Sherlock Holmes" (2009) since they have have a British production component.

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But how do you decide whether something is British or non-British?
There are many ways to classify productions
Do you go by the director, cast or some other member of the crew?
Or where it was made?
The IMDb goes by the nationality of the leading production company (after all, they probably paid for it)

Steve

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Fair question ...but as you admit can get complex quickly. For the time being I'm using Wikipedia and IMDB to help me decide. And naturally if someone can show me good reason I will gladly move a film.